Everyone loves a Chagall – this weeks painting blog

Jun 3, 2020 | painting, writing

This week’s blog: http://delphapainting.blogspot.com/2020/06/everyone-loves-chagall.html June 1st is my 1st wedding anniversary with my husband Nigel. Each morning I am greeted by the sight of not only my beautiful husband but by Wedding Gift, the painting I...

Open Studios – a virtual tour

May 27, 2020 | open studio

Welcome and come on in! As I couldn’t open up for Cornwall Open Studios this year I opened up on film. Please click on link to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfA0eRiuYTI&t=2s Watch this short tour (9 minutes) of my work in situ in my studio in...

Lockdown Stories

May 27, 2020 | painting

I’ve been asking friends about their lockdown stories, something that sums up their experience. One friend poetically described how her tears flowing into glasses of wine as a fitting summary of her lockdown experience, another  described multi-tasking at the kitchen...

Safe social distancing and art!

May 14, 2020 | painting

During lockdown I could safely socially distance and pop in to my studio occasionally  – just to leave something different in the window for everyone to see as they passed. Bread Street is a tiny back street that runs parallel to the main street in Penzance. It...

Paintings that resonate with life now

May 14, 2020 | motherhood, painting

During the COVID19 crisis I have been in lockdown at home and painting in whatever space available. I have created lots of new work including ‘Sleepless nights, Complicated Days’. Part of my ‘Domestopias’ series of paintings that show the ambivalence and...

Painting shortlisted for Mother Art Prize

Apr 20, 2020 | art prize

Great news that ‘Babble Tower- the life raft of language’ (80x100x4cm) has gone though to the next round of the Mother Art Prize. I don’t often go in for prizes but the Mother Art Prize supports artists who are mothers and as a mother of  and...